Cap for burial-casket lids.



- No. 680,092. F. WARTHER. CAP FOB BUBIA L GASKET (IDS.

(Application filed Apr. 18, 1901.)

Patented Aug. 6, 190i (No Model.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK VVARTHER, OF CINCINNATI, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE CEAN'E AND BREEDMANUFACTURING COMPANY, OESAME PLACE.

CAP FOR BURlAL-CASKET LlDS.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent N 0. 680,092, dated August6, 1901.

Application filed April 18, 1901. Serial No. 56,446. (No model.)

'Zb ctZZ whom, it may concern-.-

Be it known that I, FRANK WARTHER, a citizen of the United States ofAmerica, and a resident of Cincinnati, in the county of Hamilton andState of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Capsfor Burial-Casket Lids, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to certain improve- 16 ments in burial-caskets,and more particularly to such caskets as are provided with caps orcover-plates for covering and protecting the glass plates of the lids;and the object of the invention is to provide for such caskets a simpleand inexpensive means for holding the caps or cover-plates securely inplace, but capable of ready operation to release the same when it isdesired to uncover the glass.

The invention consists in certain novel fea- 20 tures of theconstruction, combination, and

arrangement of the several parts of the improved cap or cover plateretaining or holding means, whereby the device is made simpler, cheaper,and is otherwise better adapted and more convenient for use, all as willbe hereinafter fully set forth.

The novel features of the invention will be carefully defined in theclaim.

In the accompanying drawings, which serve to illustrate my invention,Figure 1 is a partial plan view showing a casket having a cap orcover-plate provided with my improved securing means. Fig. 2 is anenlarged fragmentary section showing one of the securing 5 devices indetail. Fig. 3 is an under side or invert-ed plan view showing the partsseen in Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is an enlarged fragmentary and invertedperspective view showing one member of the improved securing means.

As seen in the views, 1 indicates the lid of the casket, having a glassplate 2 at its head end, and 3 indicates a cap or cover-plate appliedover said glass plate to cover and protect the same in a well-known way.The cap 5 or cover-plate 3 is formed with a metal framein Fig. 1, studsor pins 5, extended down from its under side and adapted to take intosockets produced in the lid 1, said sockets being,

as herein shown, formed from open-ended sections 8 of metal tubing letinto the casket-lid at suitable points to receive said studs or pins 5and having their inner walls rounded or expanded, as shown at 9, attheir upper ends,

so as to permit the pins or studs 5 to more freely enter the sockets.The .lower ends of the sections or sockets 8 are extended down below theunder side of the casket-lid l and are free therefrom, being provided intheir side walls with longitudinal slits or kerfs 10, extended upwardfrom their lower ends and havingthe portions of their walls between saidslits formed into elastic tongues, which are bent slightly toward eachother, so as to reduce the bores of the sections or sockets at theirlower ends. The studs or pins 5 are of greater length than the socketsin which they are engaged, and at their lower ends said studs or pinsare formed with enlargements or heads 6, the under sides of which aremade rounded, as shown at 7, so as to facilitate the entry of the studsinto their sockets. The said heads or enlargements 6 at the lower endsof the studs produce annular shoulders extended around the studs andadapted when said 8o studs are in place in their sockets 8 for engagement with the lower edges of the tongues of the sockets or sections 8between the slits 10, by which means the studs or pins are held againstremoval from the sockets except by the application of sufficient draftupon the cap or cover-plateB to insure the outward flexing of saidelastic tongues to permit the shoulder on the stud to pass above thelower edges of the said elastic tongues. The shoul- 9o derof the studand the lower end of the bore of the socket or section 8 will of coursebe made rounded, so that when draft is applied to the cap or cover-plale the stud will ride up in the bore of the socket 8. By this means 5the cap or cover-plate is securely held upon the casket-lid againstaccidental displacement and is also prevented from rattling about, andwhen it is desired to still further guard against removal of the cap orcover- 10; plate an auxiliary securing device is provided, herein shownin the form of a screw to be engaged with an interiorly-threaded' socket12, carried by the casket-lid 1, in such a way as to prevent the studsor pins 5 from being withdrawn from their sockets until said screw shallhave first been turned to disengage it from the casket-lid. The upperpart of the screw above the cap 3 also forms a convenient handle, bymeans of which the cap or cover-plate may he lifted when it is desiredto remove it from the casket.

The improved securing means constructed as above described is of a verysimple and economical nature and is especially well adapted for use,since it permits of securely holding the cap or cover-plate upon theeasket-lid and is capable of very ready operation by merely pressing thesaid cap or cover-plate, down upon or drawing it up from the casketlid,so that delay in applying or removing the cap, such as is caused by theoperation of screws and other similar devices, is avoided.

It will also be obvious from the abovedescription that the device iscapable of some modification without material departure from theprinciples and spirit of the invention, and

for this reason I do not wish to be understood as limiting myself to theprecise form and arrangement of the several parts herein 'set forth.

Having thus described my invention, I claim r Y In a securing ,meansforthe caps or cover plates of caskets and the like, the combina= tion of acap-frame having a downwardly-ex= tended stud the lower end of which isformed with a rounded enlargement, and a casket-lid having a tubularsocket-piece open at its upper end toreceive said stud, the lower end ofsaid socket-piece being extended below the under side of the casket-lidand having longitudinal slits in its side walls forming be= tween themelastic tongues for engagement with the enlarged lower part of the studto hold thestud in place in said socket-piece substantially as setforth. v

Signed at Cincinnati, Ohio, this 15th day of April, 1901. p

FRANK WARTHERl Witnesses:

J. D. THORNE, JOHN ELIAS J ONES;

